Students’ Theses and Dissertations

I’m proud of my students’ work! You can find here links to all of their PhD dissertations and MSc theses.

PhD Dissertations

This is the list of PhD dissertations produced by my supervised students.

Click on the title of the dissertation to get the download link.

Marwa Essam (Fall 2024)
Background Linking of News Articles

Dissertation was accepted without modifications

Download: Marwa Essam – Final PhD Dissertation – Dec 2024
Fatima Haouari (Spring 2024)
Retrieval of Authorities and Their Evidence for Rumor Verification in Arabic Social Media

Dissertation was accepted without modifications

Download: Fatima Haouari – Final PhD Dissertation – June 2024
Reem Suwaileh (Spring 2023)
Location Mention Prediction from Disaster Tweets

Dissertation was accepted without modifications

Download: Reem Suwaileh – Final PhD Dissertation – May 2023
Rana Malhas (Fall 2022)
Arabic Question Answering on the Holy Qur'an

Dissertation was accepted without modifications

Download: Rana Malhas – Final PhD Dissertation – Jan 2023
Maram Hasanain (Spring 2022)
Enabling Effective Arabic Information Retrieval on the Web and Social Media

Dissertation was accepted without modifications

Download: Maram Hasanain – Final PhD Dissertation – May 2022

MSc Theses

This is the list of MSc theses produced by my supervised students.

Click on the title of the thesis to get the download link.

Radwa Gad (Spring 2025)
Automating Information Extraction from Perovskite Solar Cells Literature Using Large Language Models

Thesis was accepted without modifications

Download: Radwa Gad – Final – MSc Thesis – May 2025
Salam Albatarni (Spring 2025)
Relevance Scoring of Arabic and English Written Essays with Dense Retrieval

Thesis was accepted without modifications

Download: Salam Albatarni – Final – MSc Thesis – May 2025
Zien Sheikh Ali (Fall 2022)
Detecting Users Prone to Spread Fake News on Arabic Twitter

Thesis was accepted without modifications

Download: Zien Sheikh Ali – Final – MSc Thesis – Dec 2022
Watheq Mansour (Fall 2021)
Did I see it before? Detecting previously-checked claims over Arabic Twitter

Thesis was accepted without modifications

Download: Watheq Mansour – Final – MSc Thesis
Sara Alrasbi (Fall 2019)
SparkIR: A Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval Engine over Spark

Thesis was accepted without modifications

Download: Sara Alrasbi – Final – MSc Thesis
Reem Suwaileh (Spring 2018)
On Relevance Filtering for Real-time Tweet Summarization

Thesis was accepted without modifications

Download: Reem Suwaileh – Final – MSc Thesis
Hind AlMerekhi (Spring 2016)
Building a Test Collection for Detecting Significant-Events in Arabic Tweets

Download: Hind Almerekhi – Final – MSc Thesis
Latifa AlMarri (Spring 2015)
Hashtag-based Query Expansion for Ad-hoc Search in Twitter

Download: Latifa AlMarri – Final – MSc Thesis
Maram Hasanain (Fall 2014)
Query Performance Prediction in Microblog Search

Thesis was accepted without modifications

Download: Maram Hasanain – Final – MSc Thesis